TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Depression and thoughts of death among disadvantaged mothers: risk factors and impact on maternal and child health
JO  - Archives of suicide research
A1  - Crandall, Marie
A1  - Sridharan, Lakshmi
A1  - Schermer, Carol
SP  - 248
EP  - 260
VL  - 14
IS  - 3
N2  - Our hypothesess were that modifiable societal risk factors would contribute to depression and thoughts of death (DTD) and that DTD would affect maternal and infant well-being. Retrospective database analysis with bivariate and multivariate statistics utilizing 3 years of data from the prospective Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Eight hundred and eighty mothers (18%) were clinically depressed; of these, 286 (33%) reported thoughts of death. DTD were significantly associated with family violence and alcohol use; a combination of DTD with family violence or maternal alcohol use markedly increased the risk of infant hospitalization (p-value <0.001). The association of DTD with problems of violence, substance abuse, and health outcomes underscores the complex relationships among these risk factors. Routine screening for these issues should be implemented.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1381-1118
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2010.494143
ID  - ref1
ER  -